John Martin Fischer's views in terms of divine foreknowledge and free will

In this thesis, John Martin Fischer's views on the issue of whether human actions can be free if God knows the future are discussed. God's foreknowledge means that God has prior knowledge of actions that have not yet taken place. Given this, it is thought that this leads to a logical inconsistency, since for a person to perform an act in a way different from the knowledge that God has would mean that he/she would change the knowledge that God had in the past, that is, the past. Therefore, given God's foreknowledge, humans do not seem to have alternative options when performing their actions. The problem arises as to whether people who do not have alternative options, who do not have the possibility to act otherwise, should be morally responsible for their actions. John Martin Fischer, in his theory of the problem of free will, tried to show that people who do not have the possibility to act otherwise can also be considered morally responsible. According to him, even if there are no alternative options available to a person, when a person performs his/her behavior in accordance with certain criteria and is the source of his/her action, he/she performs his/her action freely and is morally responsible for this action. The aim of this thesis is to bring a different perspective to this problem by analyzing Fischer's view of free will in the context of God's foreknowledge. In this study, firstly, the proposed solutions to the problem of free will in the context of both determinism and divine foreknowledge are discussed. Considering Fischer's views, the areas where these are considered inadequate are pointed out. It is seen that some philosophers give up divine foreknowledge in order to defend free will, while others argue that human beings are not free in their actions in order to defend the existence of divine foreknowledge. Then John Martin Fischer's views are explained in detail and the objections raised against him are also analyzed. In conclusion, it is seen that the view of semicompatibilism offers a solution that can satisfy especially theist communities. Keywords: God's Foreknowledge, Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Semicompatibilism, Determinism.